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[charger]

Sorry for the dumb question but I have no experience with tuners and wonder if the SERT will add any power, rideabilty or cooling effect to a stock CUSE3

[Fired00d]

Since you didn't mention what bike you had I'm going to go by your avatar (CUSE³). Because your bike comes lean from the factory adding a SERT will allow you the ability to adjust your Air/Fuel ratio which will make your bike run cooler. The bikes from the factory are set up very lean and that is one of the reasons for the excess heat. Also because the SERT will better tune your bike (if you desire to have it dyno tuned) it is a possibility you may get more power out of it. Unless you are going to go with a better breathing exhaust and better air intake the gains may be very minimal.

 
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Fired00d
 

[charger]

Thanks Fired00d that's what I wanted to know, I will at some point add exhaust and AC, possibly cam's, not into hot rodding but like lots of umph, will wait till I hear the pipes I want. Really don't want "LOUD" just good breathing and the rumble. Any suggestions would be appreciated.


Charger
Ride It Like Ya Stold It

[Quint]

Really don't want "LOUD" just good breathing and the rumble. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Charger

Rush slip-ons might be a good option for you. They have that classic Harley rumble, and go from 1.5" to 2.5" diameter baffles in 0.25" increments, 1.5 being the quietest. A lot of Harley dealers sell the 2.0 as a "halfway house", thinking they have a good combination of sound without excessive noise.  What's more they are not expensive and they open up the breathing quite nicely. Tuners get great results using the Rush mufflers with the stock header pipes.

With my first Harley, I got the "race spec" SE slip-ons, which I thought way loud, and within a month, I had pipe envy! However, the SE slip-ons are a good way to go if you want power without much extra volume in sound. My buddy has them on his 07 Ultra, and they sound ok but very little louder than stock.

I have Rinehard True Duals on mine, and I thought they were loud when first installed. Now I would like more volume from them! As an interesting side note: one of the major benefits of dyno tuning is vastly increasing the effective rev range. Before, my bike didn't want to lug below about 2,500 without pinging, and maxed out at about 5,500. Now it will pull cleanly in any gear from under 2,000 revs and wind out to 6,000. That's increased the effective rev range by more than 33%, which is very useful, particularly when you're in a situation when you don't have time to change gear.

[charger]

Thanks for the input Quint. Being white all over here now, I have a few (4-5) months to think about it

Charger